224 Manual of the Game Birds of India 



Digoonch, Nepal ; Dighons, Sholoncho, 

 Bengal ; Laitunga, Manipur ; Tau-bay, 

 Burm. 



THE Pin-tail occurs, as a winter visitor, 

 in every portion of the Indian Empire 

 from Kashmir and the Punjab to Assam, 

 and thence to the extreme southern point 

 of India and Ceylon on the one hand, 

 and to Burma, at least as far as the 

 latitude of Moulmein, on the other. On 

 the east, Lieut. J. H. Whitehead informs 

 me, it extends to Kengtung in the Shan 

 States, where he has shot it. 



The Pin-tail has a very wide range, 

 being found throughout the greater part 

 of the Northern Hemisphere. In summer 

 it is a circumpolar bird, breeding between 

 the 6oth and yoth degrees of north lati- 

 tude and occasionally farther south. In 

 the winter it is found as low down as 

 Central America, Northern Africa, Asia 

 Minor, Persia, India, Burma and China. 



The Pin-tail commences to arrive in 

 Kashmir and the Himalayas as early as 

 the end of September, but it does not 

 become generally common in the plains 

 till November. It commences its return 

 journey to the north in March, a few birds 

 remaining till the beginning of April. 



